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Try Out Microsoft Azure Platform With Free Tokens

Nov3

Written by:2010/11/03 08:10 AM

Download the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and SDK and get free Azure tokens to try out the platform. The tokens will be valid until the end of November. All that you have to do is to start the download from the eval centre at:

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand computing and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centres.

Windows Azure is an open environment that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML.

But don’t stop there, because with Windows Azure you can support other popular languages such as Java, PHP and Ruby.

Use the SDK to develop Windows Azure Applications, then use the free tokens to try out the platform. The Windows Azure allows you to have the cloud on your desktop. It allows you to build and then run applications on your desktop machine just as though they were running in the cloud.

Who’s using Windows Azure

Well the list just keeps growing and growing. So I thought I would just mention a few here that might peek your interest.